Gareth Evans

There are a lot of people in the world who are very good at martial arts but that doesn't make them good screen fighters. It's almost two different disciplines.

My wife is Indonesian-Japanese... and what happened is, she found me doing a documentary on pencak silat. And through the process of doing that documentary I had fallen in love with silat and learnt enough about the culture that I could comfortably live and work in Indonesia.

Yes, part of me was like - 'The Raid 1' and '2' were amazing for me, incredible for me, but I didn't want to just be doing 'The Raid' films all the time.

What we did with 'The Raid 2' - I felt that we kind of closed that off nicely in 'The Raid 2.'

I don't like to get ahead of myself.

It's true. In hotels I do always look at what you could rip out to use as a prop. The nicer the place, the more I want to destroy it.

I loved, like really, really loved, the humor in Jason Eisener's 'Alien Slumber Party.'

In Indonesia we have quite a strict censorship law, so there's certain things we're just not allowed to do, and there's certain things we have to restrain ourselves from doing.

I couldn't see myself going back out to make 'The Raid 3.'

I want to do a Yakuza movie.

I want to do an American crime gangster movie.

For me, 'The Raid' was survival horror. It had thriller elements, tension elements, gunfire, martial arts, and action - throw all of those things together and see if they can fit well. All of those things played a part.

Merantau' was my attempt to infuse drama with martial arts. It was a bit of a mixed bag for me. I'm super proud of it but I can see the strain of some things in there too. It was our first film.

I just don't know how to make a PG-13 movie.

I enjoy watching superhero movies.

When people look too perfect, it's not cool.

I used to use Twitter and I had to get off it because every morning it was like I'd wake up, and the first thing I'd do is reach for my phone, click on it and check the timeline.

I have family and friends who are religious, they don't wear it on their sleeves as part of their souls, but I see the beauty of what that religion does for them.

When I was in Indonesia I had made a short horror film called 'Safe Haven' for the 'V/H/S/2' anthology with Timo, a friend of mine. When we did that it was a real fun experience, it was a taste of what it's like to make something in the horror genre.

Basically, when it came to 'Apostle' there were a number of factors that led me to make it.